He's from a real estate family in New York that's on Trump's level. His younger brother has run shit for awhile, ever since his father decided that even though Robert was the eldest, he was batshit insane. He still has loads of cash. Probably why he's been able to beat three murder raps until now. He's been picked up again.
The arrest came on the eve of Sunday's broadcast on HBO of the final episode of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."
If he's not guilty, then he'll be joining O. J.'s support group of "people who are still looking for the real killer." I'm astounded the jury let him off the last time he was charged with murder.
Since it's Texas, he claimed self-defense. His alleged friend was sitting in Robert's house (that Robert had bought in drag disguise), waiting for him with a gun to come home. Argument ensues, shots fired, friend ends up dead with a bullet in the head. Seeing as how Bob was a suspect in two open murders already, he figures a third, even in self-defense, isn't going to be believable. So he dismembers the corpse and tosses the parts off the nearest dock he can find. Except he does it so incompetently that everything floats to the surface. However, no one ever finds the head, and there's zero evidence to contradict anything in Robert's story, put together by Texas's top two criminal defense attorneys. There isn't a lot supporting it, either. Since Texas says a self-defense claim is something the prosecution has to disprove, Robert is acquitted.
Chances are the corpse found out Bob was on the run because some people wanted to chat with him about a murder back around the turn of the millennium. He tried to extort money and wasn't fast enough on the draw. But that other murder was timed conveniently enough for Bob because the victim was someone who might have implicated him in a third fucking killing. His wife went missing in the early '80s and no one ever found out why. Around 2000-ish, someone decided to follow up some old leads for that case. Word got around to Bob that they were going to question one of his old acquaintances that may have helped him dispose of his wife. A week before an investigator gets out for a talk, Bob's old college buddy gets a bullet to the back of the head.
Robert Durst is 71. He's most likely been a murderer for as long as I've been alive. He's in Whitey Bulger and old-ass Nazi territory now; it doesn't matter what happens, he's gotten away with it long enough that I consider the system beaten.
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